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Natural Disasters

 Bengal floods kills 893

at least 893 people have died and 18 million rendered homeless in flood-ravaged West Bengal. Official reports indicated that the death toll might reach 1000. The state chief minister has

Publication Date: 
30/10/2000
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Natural Disasters, Floods, West Bengal
Environment

 Rising like the Phoenix

After suffering a spate of floods villagers regain environmental and economic vitality

Publication Date: 
29/09/2000
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Land Use, Common Property Resources, Organic Farming, Watershed Development, Floods, Disaster Management, Women, Public Participation, NGO, Rajasthan, Jaipur (D), Sustainable Development
Mining

 Welcome to cyber city

Computers cannot prevent floods a lesson that the Internet savvy chief minister of Andhra Pradesh is learning the hard way

Publication Date: 
29/09/2000
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Land Encroachments, Hussain Sagar, Floods, Flood Control, Disaster Management, Governance, Andhra Pradesh
Environment

 Now it is floods

It is time people established their relationship with water once again

Publication Date: 
29/09/2000
Anil Agarwal
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Water Harvesting, Floods, Urban Habitat, Urbanisation, Urban Management, Hydrology, Governance, CSE, Anil Agarwal, India, Rainfall
India

 INDUNDATED by excuses

the floods have once again ravaged Bihar. Claims made by the government that all precautionary measures were taken, embankment and anti-erosion work completed in time and that the floods would not be allowed to occur

Publication Date: 
14/09/2000
Dinesh Kumar Mishra
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Burhi Gandak, Kosi, Dams, Floods, Flood Control, Disaster Management, Migration, Governance, Political Parties, Politics, Nepal, Bihar, Corruption
India

 sponsored blight?

Another monsoon. The season of suffering in India s flood plains. And of blaming upstream people for floods. Is there an end to this

Publication Date: 
14/09/2000
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Indus, Health Effects, Waterborne diseases, Natural Disasters, Floods, Flood Control, Disaster Management, Governance, Politics
India

 POLITICS OF BLAME

Some facts about floods in the Indo Gangetic plains

Publication Date: 
14/09/2000
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Floods
Agriculture

 KILLING FLOODS

At least 50 people were killed and hundreds were rendered homeless in Bhutan due to flash floods and mudslides caused by fierce rains. Lynpo Khandu Wangchuk, the minister for trade, said that

Publication Date: 
14/09/2000
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Floods, Disaster Management, Bhutan, Rainfall
India

 Nature s wrath

Even flash floods cannot refresh the authorities' understanding of the dynamic and fragile ecosystem of the Himalaya

Publication Date: 
30/08/2000
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Ecosystems, Himalaya, Shifting Cultivation, Deforestation, Floods, Landslides, Roads, Himachal Pradesh, Sustainable Development
Wildlife

The current state of rhino in Assam and threats in the 21st century

Assam, India, is one of the last remaining strongholds of the Indian rhino, an animal that is dependent on conservation because of threats from poaching and destruction of habitat. Field research was carried out in Assam to ascertain the current state of the rhino and to evaluate various threats. This paper highlights the latest status of rhino in Assam after the census of 1999, and the intense fieldwork carried out between January 1998 and September 2000. Poaching and floods are both named as major problems that greatly hamper conservation.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2000
Bibhab Kumar Talukdar
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Rhinoceros, Assam, Poaching, Endangered Species, Kaziranga SA, Floods, Pabitora SA, Orang NP

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